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Thursday 6 June 2019 6:04pm
Manila, Phillipines : In the Pacific, a major disaster can slow the country’s gross domestic product by 1-2 percent, according to an Asian Development Bank Report titled, GDP tragedy: Preventing natural hazards from turning into economic disasters. -
Thursday 6 June 2019 6:00pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Manu Hu’akau (32) was the driver who died after his vehicle crashed into a gate and power pole on Taufa'ahau Road at Mailetaha early morning, June 4.
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Thursday 6 June 2019 3:21pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : A Digicel customer, ‘Aho Afa Vea, from Popua in Tongatapu, has won a trip to Auckland to watch the Mate Ma’a Tonga and New Zealand Kiwis rugby league test match this month. Premium content -
Thursday 6 June 2019 11:42am
Trento, Italy : In short, the big religion story in the last century is not one of ideological struggle between Christianity and Islam, with Islam winning. It is a story of growing corporatization, with local and folk religions everywhere being gradually but inexorably replaced by churches and mosques that are affiliated with two of the world’s main religious brands. You may regret it or welcome it, but it has proved unstoppable. By Paul Seabright. -
Thursday 6 June 2019 11:23am
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : In spite of beautiful weather for fishing on the long weekend for Emancipation Day, the big fish were not biting off Tongatapu for a two day Fishing Tournament, held on Saturday and Monday June 1 -3, hosted by the Nuku'alofa Fishing Club. A 14.7kg wahoo caught by Tasman O’Dey took the first prize at Faua boat harbour. Premium content -
Wednesday 5 June 2019 7:06pm
: Commonwealth Secretary-General Patricia Scotland has outlined a framework to help member countries investigate and prosecute corruption offences, which cost the global economy around $2 trillion a year. She was speaking at the fifth annual regional meeting of the Caribbean heads of anti-corruption agencies, hosted in the Cayman Islands from 3-7 June. -
Wednesday 5 June 2019 6:53pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Five elite Tongan athletes took to the track and field at Teufaiva Stadium today, 5 June, to continue perfecting their techniques in the lead up to the Pacific Games to be held in Samoa next month. By Eleanor Gee Premium content -
Wednesday 5 June 2019 6:48pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Former Cabinet Minister ‘Akosita Lavulavu and her husband, ‘Etuate Lavulavu, who are charged with fraud relating to a number of irregularities in an audit of the ‘Unuaki ‘o Tonga Royal Institute in 2016 were permitted to apply for judicial review of the audit. Premium content -
Tuesday 4 June 2019 9:40pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Dare to Dream Foundation Inc, which aims to help Tongan Deportees and vulnerable Tongan youths was launched on Saturday 1 June at Masi‘ata Beach, Kolovai.1 comment Premium content -
Tuesday 4 June 2019 9:03pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Tonga High School celebrated its 72nd Anniversary with a commemorative service in Nuku‘alofa today. Premium content -
Tuesday 4 June 2019 8:59pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : A 32-year-old man died when the vehicle he was driving crashed into a gate and a power pole on Taufa'ahau Road at Mailetaha early this morning, June 4. Premium content -
Tuesday 4 June 2019 8:39pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : A former police officer Vilisoni Finau (51) was sentenced to four years and three months imprisonment after being found guilty of reckless driving causing death of a male driver last year. Premium content -
Tuesday 4 June 2019 8:29pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : An extreme explorer expedition in Tonga is aiming to become the first to dive and explore the Horizon Deep within the Tonga Trench. This week the Five Deeps Expedition aims to find out if the Tonga Trench is only the second-deepest in the Pacific or if it might be actually deeper than the Mariana Trench. Premium content -
Tuesday 4 June 2019 2:05pm
Paris, France : Since the Tiananmen Square massacre 30 years ago, China has achieved extraordinary economic development. Yet, contrary to the expectations of many Western leaders and analysts, the country has not gradually embraced press freedom or respect for civil rights. On the contrary: as a recent Reporters Without Borders (RSF) report shows, China today is actively working to build a repressive “new world media order” – an initiative that poses a clear and present danger to the world’s democracies. By Wu’er Kaixi and Christophe Deloire. -
Tuesday 4 June 2019 1:42pm
Wellington, New Zealand : The New Zealand Defence Force has taken part in a multi-national fisheries patrol that covered an area 22 times the size of New Zealand. The operation, from 19-31 May involved seven members of the Forum Fisheries Agency, including Tonga. Some 57 vessels were boarded by authorities during the operation in the exclusive economic zones. -
Saturday 1 June 2019 2:43pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Tonga, effectively, is without a Prime Minister, because Hon. ‘Akilisi Pohiva, on a brief return to the country, told the Tongan media this week that his doctor in New Zealand had advised him not to engage in any intensive mental activity. By Pesi Fonua.1 comment Premium content -
Friday 31 May 2019 7:32pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : A new kindergarten building for Maamaloa Fakatouato Kindergarten was handed over on May 29 after being upgraded by the Government of Japan. Premium content -
Friday 31 May 2019 7:29pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : A 39-year-old former senior loans officer who embezzled from employer, Five Star Finance in 2015 was sentenced to three-years three-months imprisonment on May 31, at the Supreme Court. Premium content -
Friday 31 May 2019 7:26pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Three men were arrested in separate seizures of illicit drugs, including a man from Lapaha who was found with cannabis and a firearm smuggled in a shipment from the United States. Premium content -
Friday 31 May 2019 4:49pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Drug users are headed to prison or the cemetery, warns Ned Cook, Team Leader for the Salvation Army Alcohol and Drugs Awareness Centre in Nuku’alofa. Some people in Tonga are trying drugs out of curiosity, especially methamphetamine, he told Matangi Tonga this week. “But if you keep experimenting with it, the addiction will grab hold of you”. Unfortunately, the services they provide at present "don't reach those desperately needing help". Premium content
